I had hoped to call my blog "The Dog's Breakfast," but that name was long since taken. But in that spirit "The Breakfast" offers a little of this and a little of that, not all of it pretty, some of it poorly chewed. These are papers, posts, stories, correspondence, musings, and links to ideas that interest or amuse me.

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Monday, May 21, 2012

Here in Minneapolis we were not on the path of today's annular eclipse. But between the yard work and the house work we took time to observe the partial eclipse visible to us in Minnesota. Not having any eclipse glasses on hand we pricked a pinhole in a piece of card board and projected the image on another. Our implementation of the technique was neither high tech nor high rez, but it sufficed.